Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Microbial Metabolism in Animal Health

Dear Colleagues,

Microbial metabolism carries unique and important functions in animal growth and wellbeing since it can extract energy from undigestible feed components and produce bioactive metabolites from unabsorbed phytochemicals and nutrients. Regulations of microbial metabolism through prebiotic, probiotic, and postbiotic approaches have become common topics in both the livestock pet food industries for enhancing health performance as well as feed efficiency. Interventions of microbial metabolism have numerous targets in animals, including energy and nutrient rescue, gastrointestinal health, redox balance, immune response, endocrine signaling, and the gut–brain axis. Benefits and shortcomings commonly coexist in these intervention practices. This Special Issue aims to examine the elements of microbial metabolism, including microbiota, metabolites, enzymes, genes, and regulators, and their contributions to animal health and growth. Because diverse microbes and metabolites are involved in the complex and multi-step processes of microbial metabolism, the coverage of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• The identification of novel microbial metabolites and their correlations with animal health and growth;
• The identification of microbes, as well as microbial enzymes and genes, responsible for the metabolic events related to animal health;
• Novel functions of microbial metabolites in animal health through the regulation of physiological events;
• Microbial metabolite markers of animal health events;
• The intervention of microbial metabolism for animal health promotion;
• Novel technological platforms and research approaches for studying microbial metabolism in animals.

Dr. Chi Chen
Guest Editor

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• animal health
• metabolite markers
• metabolomics
• microbial metabolism
• microbial metabolite
• microbial intervention